In a scene from Katie Kitamura’s new novel, Intimacies, the narrator is interpreting for an African dictator, who’s on trial for crimes against humanity in The Hague, at an institution based on the ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Katie Kitamura’s fourth novel, “Intimacies,” is coolly written and casts a spell. The light it emits ...

Her new novel, “Intimacies,” introduces readers to the perceptive, digressive mind of an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world. By Brandon ...

The unnamed narrator of Katie Kitamura’s novel “Intimacies” (Riverhead, 225 pages, $26) has moved from New York to the Hague to take a temporary position as an interpreter at the International Court ...

The novelist and art critic Katie Kitamura suggested we meet at David Zwirner gallery on 19th Street. She wanted to catch a show by Rose Wylie, an 86-year-old British artist who creates massive ...

We are all immersed in our own circumstances, and we get used to them, especially when they come with personal safety and a measure of power. That’s a common enough combination for the kind of ...

The way in which we present ourselves to the world is not always the way in which we see ourselves. That gap widens when it meets the constant memory of violence. In her second poetry collection ...